Ayub 40:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(40-13) Tulang-tulangnya seperti pembuluh tembaga, kerangkanya seperti batang besi.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(40-13) Tulang-tulangnya seperti pembuluh tembaga, kerangkanya seperti batang besi.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Jikalau sungai sebak sekalipun tiada diindahkannya; maka tiada ia takut jikalau seisi sungai Yarden masuk ke dalam mulutnya.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Beholde the beaste Behemoth, who I made with thee, which eateth haye as an oxe: ¹⁶ Lo how his strength is in his loynes, and what power he hath in the nauil of his body. ¹⁷ When he wyll, he spreadeth out his tayle lyke a Cedar tree, all his sinowes are stiffe. ¹⁸ His bones are lyke pipes of brasse, yea his bones are lyke staues of iron. ¹⁹ He is the chiefe of the wayes of God, he that made him wyl make his sword to approche vnto him. ²⁰ Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde take their pastime. ²¹ He resteth him in the shade, in the couerte of the reede and fennes. ²² The trees couer him with their shadowe, and the wyllowes of the brooke compasse him about. ²³ Beholde, he drinketh vp whole ryuers and feareth not, he thinketh that he can drawe vp Iordane into his mouth. ²⁴ He taketh it with his eyes, and yet the hunter putteth a bridle into his nose.

Bible Verse Review
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Job 7:12, Isaiah 48:4

Reciprocal: Job 6:12 - of brass Job 10:11 - fenced Revelation 9:9 - they had

Cross-References

Genesis 40:12
And Ioseph sayde vnto hym, this is the interpretatio of it. The three braunches are three dayes.

Genesis 41:26
The seuen good kyne, are seuen yeres, and the seuen good eares are seue yeres also: and it is but one dreame.

1 Corinthians 10:4
And dyd all drynke of one maner of spirituall drynke. (And they dranke of that spirituall rocke that folowed them, which rocke was Christe.)

1 Corinthians 11:24
And when he had geuen thankes, he brake it, and sayde: Take ye [and] eate, this is my body which is broke for you: This do ye in the remembraunce of me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass: his bones [are] as bars of iron. Than which nothing is stronger. The repetition is made for greater illustration and confirmation; but what is said is not applicable to the elephant, whose bones are porous and rimous, light and spongy for the most part, as appears from the osteology k of it; excepting its teeth, which are the ivory; though the teeth of the river horse are said to exceed them in hardness l; and artificers say m they are wrought with greater difficulty than ivory. The ancients, according to Pausanias n, used them instead of it; who relates, that the face of the image of the goddess Cybele was made of them: and Kircher o says, in India they make beads, crucifixes, and statues of saints of them; and that they are as hard or harder than a flint, and fire may be struck out of them. So the teeth of the morss, a creature of the like kind in the northern countries, are valued by the inhabitants as ivory p, for hardness, whiteness, and weight, beyond it, and are dearer and much traded in; :-; but no doubt not the teeth only, but the other bones of the creature in the text are meant.

k In Philosoph. Transact. vol. 5. p. 155, 156. l Odoardus Barbosa apud Bochart. ut supra. (Apud Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 14. col. 758.) m Diepenses apud ib. n Arcadica, sive, l. 8. p. 530. o China cum Monument. p. 193. p Olaus Magnus, ut supra, (De Ritu. Septent. Gent.) l. 2. c. 19. Voyage to Spitzbergen, p. 115.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His bones are as strong pieces of brass - The circumstance here adverted to was remarkable, because the common residence of the animal was the water, and the bones of aquatic animals are generally hollow, and much less firm than those of land animals. It should be observed here, that the word rendered “brass” in the Scriptures most probably denotes “copper.” Brass is a compound metal, composed of copper and zinc; and there is no reason to suppose that the art of compounding it was known at as early a period of the world as the time of Job. The word here translated “strong pieces” (אפיק 'âphı̂yq) is rendered by Schultens “alvei - channels,” or “beds,” as of a rivulet or stream; and by Rosenmuller, Gesenius, Noyes, and Umbreit, “tubes” - supposed to allude to the fact that they seemed to be hollow tubes of brass. But the more common meaning of the word is “strong, mighty,” and there is no impropriety in retaining that sense here; and then the meaning would be, that his bones were so firm that they seemed to be made of solid metal.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 40:18. His bones are as strong pieces of brass-bars of iron. — The tusk I have mentioned above is uncommonly hard, solid, and weighty for its size.